COURSE AIMS

Discover how to establish practical Career Development – Succession Planning to facilitate the effectiveness of employee contributions and commitments, ensuring that your organisation always has the right number of employees available at the right time with the necessary skills and experience to successfully carry out the business plan to take the organisation to the next level.

WHO WILL BENEFIT FROM THE COURSE?

Human Resource Managers, Line Managers, HR Business Partners, Team Leaders and Specialists

WHAT WILL YOU GAIN FROM THIS COURSE?

Understand the basics of Career Development

Career Development – Talent Management – Human Capital Management

Employee and employer Career Development Roles

Evaluate innovative Corporate Career Development Initiatives

How to close the developmental gap by managing and evaluating Career Development Plans and Succession Planning

Prepare individual Career Development Plan

What is Succession Planning?

Manage Career choices

SAMPLE COURSE CONTENT

Below is an example of the course content. The content can be ‘tailored’ to meet the exact requirements of the client.

What Is Career Development Planning and Succession Planning

The Importance of Development

Today’s Careers

Essentials of Career Development Planning

Defining Succession Planning

Aims and Reasons for Career Development Planning

Succession Planning

Organisational Change

Organisation Readiness to Change

Career Development Tools

Competencies – The Foundation for Career Development

Coaching as An Essential Management Function

Mentoring – A Must for the Success of Career Development

Counselling Skills

Development of Internal Successors

Succession Planning and Management

How to Get Started

Refining the Programme as Needed

Assessing Present Work Requirements

Assessing Present Individual Job Performance

Assessing Future Work Requirement and Individual Potential

How to Close the Development Gap

The Importance of Individual Development Plan (IDP)

Designing the IDP

How to Identify ‘High Potentials’

High Potentials

High Professionals

Assessing Individual Potential

Best Practices for Managing High Potentials

Improving the Management of High Potentials

Spot, Develop and Retain High Potentials

Encouraging, Promoting and Enhancing a Development Culture

Characteristics of a Development Culture

Career Development as an Agent for Change

Roles and Responsibilities in a Development Culture

Role of Developers

Role of Top Management

Role of Human Resources

Role of Line Managers

People Coming First

People Before Numbers

Peoples Wants for the Organisation

Organisation Wants

HR Priorities

HR Activities

Tool Kit for Success

METHODOLOGY OF TRAINING

The foundation of our training is anchored in activity-based experiential learning. This methodology takes into consideration different learning and communication styles, and more importantly language and cultural differences. It is through active participation that the adoption and application of theory is expedited.

Our training team pays careful attention to planning and designing effective instructional methods essential for the transfer of knowledge. It is the creative skill of our management trainers and consultants that reveal untapped skills of the delegates through: